About the Exhibit / Contact Us

Exhibit Curator

Hannah Lahti is a Public History and US History PhD student at Loyola University Chicago.  She designed the Influences of a Self-Made Woman: The Early Journals of Frances Willard digital exhibit during a remote internship in the summer of 2020.  The project aims to contextualize Frances Willard’s early journals in order to better understand the woman that she later embodied as a national socio-political reformer.  With the support of the staff at the Frances Willard House Museum and Archives, the project developed into a digital exhibit and is available to students and researchers.  

Frances Willard House Museum and Archives

The Frances Willard House Museum and Archives uses their vast collections to interpret, preserve, and teach the history of the women’s rights reformer Frances Willard.  The museum and the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) archives are located at the site of the home of Frances Willard in Evanston, Illinois.  The Influences of a Self-Made Woman: The Early Journals of Frances Willard digital exhibit is supported by the professionals and collections at the Frances Willard House and available to the public.

For more information, visit our website: https://franceswillardhouse.org/ 

Visit the museum:

Frances Willard House Museum                                                                                                                  1730 Chicago Avenue                                                                                                                              Evanston, Illinois 60201

Phone:  (847) 328-7500

To contact the Frances Willard House Museum, please email us: 

• General: info@franceswillardhouse.org
• Director: director@franceswillardhouse.org
• Tours: tours@franceswillardhouse.org
• Archives: archives@franceswillardhouse.org